GRANT COUNTY
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Growing Grant County: Entrepreneurship-Led Growth - Fostering an Ecosystem Where Businesses Thrive
New business formations have reached historic levels nationally, and the communities that will benefit most are the ones actively building the conditions for entrepreneurship to take root. In Grant County, that ecosystem is forming.
Workforce as Economic Development: Career Pathways, Sector Partnerships, and WIOA Basics
Walk the floor of nearly any manufacturing plant in Grant County and you will hear some version of the same conversation: the work is there, the wages are competitive, and the company would hire more people tomorrow if it could find them. That is not a recruitment problem. It is a pipeline problem, and pipeline problems are economic development.
Real Estate Development & Reuse: Turning Challenging Properties into Productive Assets
One of the costliest habits in local development is wishful thinking. A vacant building is not an opportunity simply because it is vacant. A former factory is not ready because it sits near a road. Challenging properties move when uncertainty is reduced, one piece at a time. That is the real work of redevelopment and reuse in Grant County.
Growing Grant County: Site Readiness and Infrastructure — What It Takes to Compete for Investment
Site selection is not a beauty contest. It is an elimination process. When a company evaluates locations for a new facility, sites get removed early if they cannot prove usable acreage, utility capacity, a clear permitting path, and a credible workforce pipeline.
Grant County has real strengths in this picture — interstate access, a 75% labor force participation rate, a strong education pipeline, and a growing list of employers making long-term investments here. But honest growth strategy requires naming the gaps alongside the wins. This post does both — and tells you what comes next.
Business Retention and Expansion: Helping Existing Employers Grow
Most economic growth starts with the employers already here. This post explains how a listen-first Business Retention & Expansion approach can help Grant County businesses solve problems early, coordinate support, and grow with confidence.
Community Listening & Stakeholder Mapping: Building the Coalition and Trust
Economic development works best when people trust the process. This guide explains how community listening and stakeholder mapping help align voices, build coalitions, and turn shared priorities into real progress in Grant County.
Grant County's Economic Snapshot: Jobs, Industries & Trends — How to Read the Data
Economic development doesn’t happen by accident. This introduction to Economic Development 101 explains how shared local vision turns into priorities, projects, and funding opportunities through the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) process—and how regions like Grant County can work together to build a stronger economic future.
Growing Grant County: From Shared Vision to Measurable Projects
Economic development doesn’t happen by accident. This introduction to Economic Development 101 explains how shared local vision turns into priorities, projects, and funding opportunities through the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) process—and how regions like Grant County can work together to build a stronger economic future.
Growing Grant County: What Economic Development Is (and How You Can Plug In)
The first post in our “Growing Grant County” 101 series. Learn what economic development really means in Grant County, Indiana — and discover two ways you can get involved this quarter.